Index trees created using distance based indexing are difficult to maintain online since the distance function involved is often costly to compute. This problem is intensified whe...
We present a novel language modeling approach to capturing the query reformulation behavior of Web search users. Based on a framework that categorizes eight different types of “...
Recent work in supervised learning of term-based retrieval models has shown significantly improved accuracy can often be achieved via better model estimation [2, 10, 11, 17]. In ...
The trend towards outsourcing increases the number of documents stored at external service providers. This storage model, however, raises privacy and security concerns because the...
—As it is true for human perception that we gather information from different sources in natural and multi-modality forms, learning from multi-modalities has become an effective ...